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IRVING, Texas--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Vizient, Inc. announced top performers in clinical quality, supplier diversity and environmental sustainability excellence. The awards recognize the achievements of participating hospitals and health systems in patient care quality and supply chain excellence and were announced at Vizient Connections Summit Sept. 17 in Las Vegas. “Top performers set a precedent in leadership and culture for other health systems and hospitals to follow," said Byron Jobe , Vizient president and CEO. "We celebrate each of these organizations for their efforts to deliver cost-effective, high-quality patient care in their communities." The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are: NYU Langone Health Rush University Medical Center UC Irvine Medical Center Houston Methodist Hospital Intermountain Medical Center Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center UCSF Medical Center Froedtert Health - Froedtert Hospital UC San Diego Health Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mayo Clinic Rochester The University of Kansas Hospital Keck Hospital of USC University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are: St George Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Memorial Hermann - The Woodlands Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire NewYork-Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Mayo Clinic Florida McKay-Dee Hospital Center NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Fairview Southdale Hospital Endeavor Health - Evanston Hospital Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital AdventHealth Daytona Beach Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital AdventHealth Fish Memorial AdventHealth Palm Coast Odessa Regional Medical Center Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital The Chester County Hospital and Health System Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton Corewell Health Grosse Pointe Hospital AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach Greenwich Hospital St. Joseph Medical Center Prisma Health Baptist Hospital AdventHealth Celebration The Medical Center of Southeast Texas Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills Campus UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Stanford Tri-Valley Endeavor Health - Highland Park Hospital Top performers in the community hospital cohort are: Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center Alta View Hospital Parkview Huntington Hospital Cedar City Hospital Mountain West Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks Parkview Noble Hospital University of Kansas Health Systems - Great Bend Campus Garrett Regional Medical Center Riverton Hospital Parkview Whitley Hospital Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital Fairview Northland Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital Layton Hospital Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Holy Family Memorial Southeast Georgia Health System-Camden Campus INTEGRIS Grove Hospital Sharon Hospital Baptist Medical Center - Nassau Fairview Lakes Medical Center Integris Miami CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Beeville The Rising Star Award recognizes academic medical centers that made significant improvement in care quality, measured by a rise in at least 20 positions in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study from the prior year and scoring in the top 25. Rising Stars are: Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center University of Chicago Medicine The Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency, and equity. The composite scoring system uses patient-level data from the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center ® , Vizient Access and Throughput data, as well as data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base. Top performers are: UCLA Health Systems Clinics NYU Langone Health University of Utah Health UCI Health Rush University Medical Group The Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellence Award recognizes provider clients across five cohorts on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community. Selection criteria is based on contract purchases of minority-, woman-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned business enterprises as a percentage of a provider client’s Vizient spend. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: University of Maryland Medical System Large, specialized complex care medical center: Novant Health Complex care medical center: Memorial Hermann Health System Pediatric cohort: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The Environmental Sustainability Excellence Award ranks members across five cohorts on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products that meet Vizient's Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Standard as well as those who commit to the White House-Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: Stony Brook University Hospital Large, specialized complex care medical center: Memorial Health Complex care medical center cohort: Legacy Health Community hospitals: Buchanan General Hospital Pediatric: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles About Vizient, Inc. Vizient, Inc. , the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serves more than 65% of the nation’s acute care providers, including 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 35% of the non-acute market. The Vizient contract portfolio represents $140 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective, high-value care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, strategic, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com .

Thirty-fifth annual edition brings expanded data and quality measures. WASHINGTON, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, today announced the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals. Now in its 35th year, Best Hospitals evaluates nearly 5,000 hospitals in more than 30 medical and surgical services. The 2024-2025 edition of Best Hospitals highlights 466 Best Regional Hospitals, ranked in states and major metro areas across the U.S. This year, for the first time, U.S. News also identified Best Regional Hospitals for Equitable Access, highlighting 98 hospitals for their success in caring for patients from historically underserved communities. Twenty hospitals with exceptional breadth and depth of excellence make up the Honor Roll. A hospital that has earned a "Best" designation may be a good option for consumers and caregivers, in consultation with their medical provider, to consider. "Choosing the right hospital to match your needs shouldn't be a guessing game," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. "The 2024-2025 edition of Best Hospitals provides patients and their families clear, data-driven insights on hospital performance and empowers Americans to choose the facility best suited to their specific health care needs." Top Five Hospitals in Selected Specialties Cancer University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, MN) Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (Boston, MA) City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center (Duarte, CA) Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH) NYU Langone Hospitals (New York, NY) Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, MN) Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York, NY) Neurology & Neurosurgery NYU Langone Hospitals (New York, NY) Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, MN) UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco, CA) New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York, NY) Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD) Orthopedics Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, NY) Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, MN) NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital (New York, NY) New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York, NY) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA) 2024-2025 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, State Highlights The following are hospitals on the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, appearing by state in alphabetical order; each either ranked No. 1 or tied for No. 1 in their state: Arizona Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix, AZ) California Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA) Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto, CA) UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA) UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals (San Diego, CA) UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco, CA) Illinois Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, IL) Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL) Maryland Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD) Massachusetts Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA) Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA) Minnesota Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, MN) New York Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York, NY) North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health (Manhasset, NY) NYU Langone Hospitals (New York, NY) North Carolina Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) Ohio Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH) Pennsylvania Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia, PA) Texas Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston, TX) The top-ranked hospitals in each state and major metropolitan area are listed at . To calculate the Best Hospitals rankings, U.S. News evaluated each hospital's performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from millions of records provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News incorporated new data on care provided to patients with Medicare Advantage insurance and on care provided to outpatients, nearly doubling the number of patients included in its annual data analysis. The Procedures & Conditions ratings are based entirely on objective quality measures. This year's rankings will be published in the U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2025 Guidebook" guidebook (ISBN 979-8-9864591-3-4), available to order from the U.S. News Online Store. For more information, visit Best Hospitals and use #BestHospitals on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter). About U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report is the global leader in quality rankings that empower consumers, business leaders and policy officials to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives and communities. A multifaceted digital media company with Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News, Real Estate, Careers and 360 Reviews platforms, U.S. News provides rankings, independent reporting, data journalism, consumer advice and U.S. News Live events. More than 40 million people visit USNews.com each month for research and guidance. 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MONDAY, June 24, 2024 -- John Nicolas was deep into kidney transplant surgery when he decided to ask his doctors if they’d started yet. “At one point during surgery, I recall asking, ‘Should I be expecting the spinal anesthesia to kick in?’” Nicolas, 28, recalled in a news release. “They had already been doing a lot of work and I had been completely oblivious to that fact. Truly, no sensation whatsoever.” Nicolas lives in Chicago resident and is the first person at his hospital, Northwestern Medicine, to receive a kidney transplant while awake. Instead of using the normal general anesthesia, doctors used a single spinal anesthesia injection to numb Nicolas while allowing him to remain alert. This new option could make transplantation available to patients whose health makes them a high risk for general anesthesia, doctors say. It also could substantially decrease the length of a transplant patient’s hospital stay. Nicolas walked out of the hospital the day after his successful surgery, which occurred on May 24. Typically, kidney transplant patients spend two to three days in the hospital, doctors said. “Inside the operating room, it was an incredible experience being able to show a patient what their new kidney looked like before placing it inside the body,” Dr. Satish Nadig , a transplant surgeon and director of the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, said in a news release. “The other exciting element is that the patient was able to be discharged home in less than 24 hours, basically making this an outpatient procedure,” Nadig added in a Northwestern news release. “Our hope is that awake kidney transplantation can decrease some of the risks of general anesthesia while also shortening a patient’s hospital stay.” Nicolas’ surgical team performed his kidney transplant in less than two hours, using a type of anesthesia similar to that employed during a cesarean section. “Doing anesthesia for the awake kidney transplant was easier than a C-section,” Dr. Vicente Garcia Tomas , chief of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medication at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said in a news release. “For John’s case, we placed a single-spinal anesthesia shot in the operating room with a little bit of sedation for comfort. It was incredibly simple and uneventful, but allowed John to be awake for the procedure, improving the patient experience.” Nicolas didn’t have any health risks that would have prohibited general anesthesia, nor did he have any phobia about it. In fact, his age and limited risk factors made him an ideal candidate to participate in a medical first, and Nicolas leapt at the opportunity. “It was a pretty cool experience to know what was happening in real time and be aware of the magnitude of what they were doing,” Nicholas said. “I had been given some sedation for my own comfort, but I was still aware of what they were doing, especially when they called out my name and told me about certain milestones they had reached,” Nicolas added. Nicolas began having kidney problems at age 16. His kidney function declined, and testing showed inflammation in his kidneys was damaging them, although the root cause was never found. He was able to avoid dialysis through medication until recently, when his kidneys failed further and it became clear he would need a kidney transplant. Nicolas’ mom originally planned to be his donor, but that fell through following a breast cancer diagnosis. Next he turned to a group of friends he’s known since elementary school, growing up in the Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville. His best friend now lives in Alexandria, Va., and works for a public health agency. Pat Wise, 29, remembers getting the text. “I was in my kitchen cooking dinner and John sent a message that read, ‘my doctor says it’s time for me to start looking for kidney donors.’ I stared at my phone and without hesitating, filled out the form that night,” Wise said. “John is a good friend. He needed a kidney, and I had an extra one. I had to at least explore the potential of being his donor.” Wise was declared a match and traveled to Chicago, where surgeons removed one of his kidneys and transplanted it into Nicolas. “I have been blessed with a friend group that has stayed together from such a young age,” Nicholas said. “We always called ourselves ‘ride or die’ friends, and this example shows that we have each other’s backs. It meant the world to me. It’s truly been life-changing.” To keep his kidneys healthy, Nicholas had to limit his salt intake. Now he’s looking forward to enjoying more pizza and having the energy to ride his bicycle around Chicago. “He is an extremely compliant patient who was in tune with his body and willing to push the envelope,” said Dr. Vinayak Rohan , a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “He had the upmost faith in us, and we had the upmost faith in him.” Northwestern Medicine plans to make this sort of surgery available to patients who can’t have general anesthesia or might otherwise benefit from it. “It really opens up a whole new door and is another tool in our toolbelt for the field of transplantation,” Nadig said. Whatever your topic of interest, subscribe to our newsletters to get the best of Drugs.com in your inbox.